Matthieu Boisgontier
@matthieuboisgontier.com
Associate Professor at @uOttawa.ca, Faculty of Health Sciences. all comments are my own. Contributing to @pci-hms.bsky.social & @cik.bsky.social. #OpenScience #Kin #PT 🇨🇦 www.linkedin.com/in/matthieuboisgontier
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November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Postdoc (and PhD) opportunity in my lab. www.linkedin.com/posts/matthi...
Should we also require open raw data & code for preprints? This would improve protection against AI-generated manuscripts. There should of course be exceptions for sensitive data, with justifications required.
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Should we also require open raw data & code for preprints? This would improve protection against AI-generated manuscripts. There should of course be exceptions for sensitive data, with justifications required.
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A better approach is to build the capacity of presses in libraries, UPs, scholar-led pubs, overlays, etc. This will take money but will allow a better kind of publishing to flourish in places that need it, so you'll change the argument from being about cost-saving towards a more ethical ecosystem.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A better approach is to build the capacity of presses in libraries, UPs, scholar-led pubs, overlays, etc. This will take money but will allow a better kind of publishing to flourish in places that need it, so you'll change the argument from being about cost-saving towards a more ethical ecosystem.
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I’m not sure who needs to hear this but RCTs are a tool in our scientific tool kit. It’s a powerful tool but things “go wrong” in RCTs with randomization, primary outcomes (yes you can do secondary analyses), intention to treat etc. RCTs, prospective, observational all have a role to play in science
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I’m not sure who needs to hear this but RCTs are a tool in our scientific tool kit. It’s a powerful tool but things “go wrong” in RCTs with randomization, primary outcomes (yes you can do secondary analyses), intention to treat etc. RCTs, prospective, observational all have a role to play in science
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A new ⭐ Editor's Choice ⭐ explores the complex relationships between depressive symptoms, pain, physical activity, and function in patients with arthritis.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A new ⭐ Editor's Choice ⭐ explores the complex relationships between depressive symptoms, pain, physical activity, and function in patients with arthritis.
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New diamond open access journal Replication Research welcomes reports of replication of previous works. #academicchatter
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/replicationresearch/index
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/replicationresearch/index
Replication Research
Replication Research is a diamond open-access and researcher-led journal that publishes reproductions, replications, and conceptual articles on repetitive research
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November 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
New diamond open access journal Replication Research welcomes reports of replication of previous works. #academicchatter
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/replicationresearch/index
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/replicationresearch/index
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So stimulating & such a pleasure to work w/ these geniuses. Took only 11 versions to get us all aligned and agree on one call to action to stop the drain.
What we all agreed on right away: this push needs to happen via strong funder and institutional policies w/out for-profit publisher interference
What we all agreed on right away: this push needs to happen via strong funder and institutional policies w/out for-profit publisher interference
New preprint on the drain that for-profit publishers place on the scientific ecosystem. We also point out that, though it's often presented as a global problem, it's actually a Global North problem: there are parts of the world with strong diamond #OA non-profit alternatives arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
So stimulating & such a pleasure to work w/ these geniuses. Took only 11 versions to get us all aligned and agree on one call to action to stop the drain.
What we all agreed on right away: this push needs to happen via strong funder and institutional policies w/out for-profit publisher interference
What we all agreed on right away: this push needs to happen via strong funder and institutional policies w/out for-profit publisher interference
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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Youyou Tu's work on anti-malarial compounds that saved millions of lives (w/Nobel+Lasker recognition) wins the low citation/huge impact cell. The original paper has 87 citations as of today: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11721477/ Hopefully she can get to 100.
What for huge citations and moderate impact?
What for huge citations and moderate impact?
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Youyou Tu's work on anti-malarial compounds that saved millions of lives (w/Nobel+Lasker recognition) wins the low citation/huge impact cell. The original paper has 87 citations as of today: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11721477/ Hopefully she can get to 100.
What for huge citations and moderate impact?
What for huge citations and moderate impact?
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New pre-print out on peer-review milling! Together with @deevybee.bsky.social and M. Angeles Oviedo Garcia.
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
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Gaming the peer review system: a sophisticated review mill in medicine highlights the need to ensure reviewer integrity
Background A review mill is a network of researchers who game the peer review system to apparently boost their citations. Members write generic review reports containing suggestions for citations to t...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New pre-print out on peer-review milling! Together with @deevybee.bsky.social and M. Angeles Oviedo Garcia.
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
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«Pourquoi l'économie de l'édition scientifique a besoin d'une réforme urgente»
📚Ce texte de @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca souligne les travers du modèle économique de la publication savante et propose 13 mesures pour y remédier.
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#ScholCommLab #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing
📚Ce texte de @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca souligne les travers du modèle économique de la publication savante et propose 13 mesures pour y remédier.
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#ScholCommLab #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
«Pourquoi l'économie de l'édition scientifique a besoin d'une réforme urgente»
📚Ce texte de @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca souligne les travers du modèle économique de la publication savante et propose 13 mesures pour y remédier.
📌 shorturl.at/g5Zel
#ScholCommLab #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing
📚Ce texte de @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca souligne les travers du modèle économique de la publication savante et propose 13 mesures pour y remédier.
📌 shorturl.at/g5Zel
#ScholCommLab #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing
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i agree. Problem is that peer review is not geared up for detection of fabricated data. Sadly I think we need to be more alert to this. Inclusion of raw data v helpful in this case - and the discrepancies in age hit you as soon as you open the file. But deposited data should be .csv! @bmj.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
i agree. Problem is that peer review is not geared up for detection of fabricated data. Sadly I think we need to be more alert to this. Inclusion of raw data v helpful in this case - and the discrepancies in age hit you as soon as you open the file. But deposited data should be .csv! @bmj.com
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"Sustaining openness in an age of industrial-scale extraction may require new economic and governance models...it may be useful to consider historical precedent [like] governance of biological resources [from] indigenous communities" sverhulst.medium.com/the-weaponis...
The Weaponisation of Openness? Toward a New Social Contract for Data in the AI Era
By Stefaan G. Verhulst
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November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Sustaining openness in an age of industrial-scale extraction may require new economic and governance models...it may be useful to consider historical precedent [like] governance of biological resources [from] indigenous communities" sverhulst.medium.com/the-weaponis...
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The first paper ('the DAG review') was an epic meta-scientific review of 200+ papers. Started in 2017 and finally accepted in 2020, the paper was conceived as a way to develop recommendations on the design and reporting of DAGs.
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Use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to identify confounders in applied health research: review and recommendations
AbstractBackground. Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are an increasingly popular approach for identifying confounding variables that require conditioning whe
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November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The first paper ('the DAG review') was an epic meta-scientific review of 200+ papers. Started in 2017 and finally accepted in 2020, the paper was conceived as a way to develop recommendations on the design and reporting of DAGs.
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Nature Communications will publish ~10K papers in 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Natu...
That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Nature Communications will publish ~10K papers in 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Natu...
That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
"55% had been asked to referee a manuscript they were not competent to critique. Surprisingly, more than 1/3 still submitted a peer review." journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
October 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"55% had been asked to referee a manuscript they were not competent to critique. Surprisingly, more than 1/3 still submitted a peer review." journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Free data resources in science are having the shit mined out of them to produce X,000's of bullshit papers.
What should we do?
(Warning: I sat on this draft for too long, and publishers are already doing some of it. That's what I get for engaging with the news.)
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What should we do?
(Warning: I sat on this draft for too long, and publishers are already doing some of it. That's what I get for engaging with the news.)
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How To Stop The Next 10,000 Bullshit Papers
Some remarkably un-radical proposals
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October 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Free data resources in science are having the shit mined out of them to produce X,000's of bullshit papers.
What should we do?
(Warning: I sat on this draft for too long, and publishers are already doing some of it. That's what I get for engaging with the news.)
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
What should we do?
(Warning: I sat on this draft for too long, and publishers are already doing some of it. That's what I get for engaging with the news.)
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
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Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳
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My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
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October 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
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I wouldn’t normally endorse AI prompts but these are indeed essential for all academics.
Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...
10 AI Prompts for Academics
making those hard jobs a little easier ...
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October 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I wouldn’t normally endorse AI prompts but these are indeed essential for all academics.
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The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.
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Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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October 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.
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We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.
@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...
Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!
@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...
Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!
Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref
Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.
@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...
Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!
@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...
Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!
Replicability and transparency in physical therapy research: Time to wake up! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Replicability and transparency in physical therapy research: Time to wake up! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s
September 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s
Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences doi.org/10.51224/SRX...
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences doi.org/10.51224/SRX...